Valprovia Governance Release Notes

v2.29.2

2026-02-23

✨ Improvements

Accurate SharePoint Group Assignments When Adding Security Groups as Members SharePoint group owner assignments now remain accurate when security groups are added as workspace members alongside existing owner definitions.

Teams Explorer Stability The Teams Explorer now opens reliably across all workspace configurations.

Seamless Admin Session Handling The admin portal now handles authentication token renewal in the background, preventing unnecessary page reloads during active sessions.

v2.29.1

2026-02-20

🚀 New Features

Office Location Token for Workspace Naming and URL Conventions Workspace naming and URL conventions now support the {user.officeLocation} token, which automatically resolves the requesting user's Office Location from Azure AD at provisioning time. This allows organizations to create structured, location-aware workspace names and URLs without manual input — and the token library can be extended with additional Azure AD properties as needed.

✨ Improvements

Enhanced Guest Provisioning During Workspace Creation Guests invited during the workspace creation workflow are now reliably added to the workspace upon provisioning, regardless of template configuration.

v2.29.0

2026-02-04

This major release introduces significant new capabilities for workspace lifecycle management and Planner integration, alongside a broad set of stability and synchronization improvements across SharePoint groups, archiving, guest management, and governance.

🚀 New Features

Predictable Workspace Restore with Custom Role Support The workspace restore process now applies custom role assignments consistently when recovering archived workspaces. Administrators have greater control and predictability over the restored state, including full support for custom SharePoint group mappings.

Planner Plan Cleanup on Workspace Deletion Administrators can now configure Teams Center to automatically remove associated Planner plans when a workspace is deleted, ensuring complete cleanup of Microsoft 365 resources without manual intervention.

Cleaner Workspace Channel Views Archived channels are now automatically excluded from workspace channel lists, providing administrators and workspace owners with an accurate, actionable view of active channels only.

Exact Timestamps in Request Views Request lists and detail panels now display the precise creation and modification time alongside the date, improving traceability for approval workflows and audit reviews.

✨ Improvements

Optimized Lifecycle Notification Delivery Lifecycle notification emails are now delivered with improved accuracy and reduced redundancy across all workspace lifecycle stages, ensuring the right stakeholders receive timely and relevant communications.

Comprehensive SharePoint Group Synchronization SharePoint group memberships now stay accurately synchronized across all role changes, including promotions, demotions, bulk updates, and scenarios where users hold both direct and group-based membership simultaneously. Role-to-SharePoint-group mappings are applied consistently regardless of the update path.

Enhanced Archive and Restore Reliability Archiving and restore operations now complete reliably across all workspace configurations, including those with large security groups, expirable group memberships, and custom SharePoint group assignments. Lifecycle status information accurately reflects the current workspace state at all times.

Improved Workspace Provisioning Workflow The workspace creation wizard now preserves all metadata fields, guest assignments, and role selections across multi-step navigation. Workspace provisioning is also optimized for large security groups, delivering a faster and more consistent provisioning experience at enterprise scale.

Enhanced Guest Management Precision Guest expiration dates, individual role assignments for multiple concurrent guests, and SharePoint group placements are now accurate across all access configurations, policy combinations, and restore scenarios.

Strengthened Governance Rule Evaluation Governance rules now evaluate workspace membership accurately when groups are deleted or restored, and correctly handle owner role updates in workspaces with maximum owner constraints.

Real-Time External Change Synchronization Membership changes made directly in Microsoft 365 — including ownership promotions and member removals — are now reliably detected and reflected in Teams Center, regardless of whether the change was initiated inside or outside the platform.

Improved Search and Notification Accuracy Channel member search now finds users by name, display name, and other attributes in addition to email address. Workspace update notifications now consistently use the correct workspace title across all notification types.

Admin Interface Refinements The admin interface now delivers consistent panel sizing, accurate status messaging, and more intuitive controls across security level configuration, lifecycle settings, request management, and sensitivity label dropdowns.

v2.28.9

2025-12-12

✨ Improvements

Streamlined Workspace Creation for Single-Language Templates The language selection step is now automatically omitted during workspace creation when a template is configured with a single language, reducing unnecessary steps for administrators and end users.

v2.28.8

2025-12-09

✨ Improvements

Accurate Group User Expiration in Private Channels Expiration dates for security group users in private channels are now calculated and applied correctly across all membership assignment scenarios.

v2.28.7

2025-12-05

✨ Improvements

Reliable SharePoint Group Synchronization on Role Changes SharePoint group memberships now update accurately whenever workspace roles are assigned, changed, or removed — including promotions, demotions, bulk role updates, and scenarios where users belong to both direct assignments and security groups simultaneously.

Consistent External Change Detection Changes to workspace membership made outside of Teams Center, including member additions and removals, are now reliably detected and reflected within the platform.

Private Channel Membership and History Accuracy Member and guest assignments in private channels — including expiration handling and removal tracking — are now recorded and applied correctly across all membership lifecycle operations.

Accurate Workspace Notifications and Status Messages Workspace and channel update notifications now consistently use the correct workspace title, and approval status messages accurately reflect the scope of requested changes.

Workspace Creation Stability Guest assignments and pending actions are now preserved correctly when navigating through the workspace creation steps, including the summary confirmation screen.

v2.28.6

2025-11-17

✨ Improvements

Reliable Security Group Search Administrators can now reliably find and add all available security groups when configuring workspace membership, including groups that were previously difficult to locate through search.

v2.28.5

2025-11-14

✨ Improvements

Full Permission Restoration After Hard Archive Recovery All workspace permissions are now correctly re-established when recovering a hard-archived workspace, ensuring immediate access for workspace users and owners upon restore.

Broader Guest Invitation Compatibility Guest invitations now work reliably across all B2B connectivity configurations, including scenarios involving Microsoft-managed domain guests when B2B direct connect is not enabled.

v2.28.4

2025-11-07

✨ Improvements

Request Details View Enhancements The request details panel is now consistently accessible from the request list view and renders correctly with full layout integrity across all display configurations.

v2.28.3

2025-11-06

🚀 New Features

✨ Improvements

Admin Interface Panel Stability Security level configuration panels, lifecycle settings, and request detail views now open and resize consistently, providing a stable and predictable admin experience.

v2.28.2

2025-11-03

✨ Improvements

Request Management Accessibility Request detail views are now accessible in all contexts, including from direct links and workspace-level request entries.

Accurate Guest Count Display for Shared Channels Shared channel guest counts are now displayed correctly immediately after workspace creation, without requiring additional interaction to refresh the view.

Broader Teams Migration Support Workspace migration now supports Teams with archived standard channels configured for broad visibility, ensuring a more complete and reliable migration experience.

v2.28.1

2025-10-30

✨ Improvements

Trusted Tenant User Visibility in Shared Channels Users from trusted tenants are now immediately visible in shared channels after being added, with no delay or refresh required.

Private Channel User Search Reliability Searching for guest users within private channels now returns accurate, deduplicated results across all search queries.

Workspace Provisioning Stability Workspace creation completes reliably across a broader range of configurations and environments.

🔒 Security & Compliance

Streamlined App Registration Credentials The deployment process now automatically removes outdated secrets and certificates from app registrations, keeping the application's credential surface lean and well-maintained.

v2.28.0

2025-10-27

This major release introduces a comprehensive Custom Roles framework for granular SharePoint permission management, full multilingual support for site workspaces, and a broad set of improvements to guest management, bulk operations, and admin performance.

🚀 New Features

Custom Role Framework for SharePoint Permission Management Administrators can now define custom roles and map them directly to SharePoint groups, giving teams precise, policy-driven access control that goes beyond the standard owner/member/guest structure. Custom roles support default and enforced role assignments, multi-role selection per user, role assignment to security groups, and full visibility in workspace history, request details, and notifications — all configured centrally in workspace templates.

Site Language Configuration for SharePoint Workspaces Administrators can now define allowed SharePoint languages per site template, set a default language, and optionally allow users to select their preferred language during workspace creation. Language tokens are automatically managed and locked in line with the selected configuration, with the chosen language displayed in the creation summary.

Leave Workspace for Security Group Members Users who are members of a workspace through a security group can now submit a leave request through Teams Center, giving group-based members the same self-service experience as directly assigned members.

Group-Level Expiry Notification Configuration Administrators can now configure notification behavior for members and guests whose collaboration time is expiring soon at the security group level, enabling more targeted and relevant communication for group-based access scenarios.

✨ Improvements

Enterprise-Scale Bulk User Operations Workspace member additions now support large user volumes in a single operation, enabling efficient onboarding at enterprise scale without batching limitations.

Faster Group Membership Loading Group user data in workspace views loads with improved efficiency, providing a more responsive experience when managing workspaces with large security groups.

Sensitivity Labels Integration Enhancement Sensitivity labels provisioning now operates independently of user session context, improving reliability for automated governance workflows and service-account-based operations.

SharePoint Site URL in Workspace Details The direct SharePoint site URL is now accessible from the workspace details panel, making it easier for administrators to navigate between Teams Center and the associated SharePoint site.

Streamlined Security Level Step The security level selection step is now automatically skipped during workspace creation when only a single security level is configured, simplifying the provisioning flow without sacrificing governance coverage.

Faster Channel Member Loading Loading owners, members, and guests for standard channels is now optimized, reducing wait times when accessing channel membership in large workspaces.

Simplified Leave Workspace Operation The leave workspace flow has been streamlined for all user types, reducing friction for end users while maintaining full governance compliance.

Guest Management Workflow Reliability The guest invitation, editing, role assignment, and removal experience is now consistent across all workspace and channel types, including shared channels, site workspaces, and multi-guest invitation scenarios.

Email Notification Accuracy Workspace and channel notification emails now accurately reflect the action type, recipient, content, and formatting across all event types — including owner updates, guest additions to private channels, and expiry reminders.

Workspace Creation Wizard Stability The workspace creation wizard correctly preserves all user inputs, guest assignments, governance states, and metadata values across multi-step navigation, and validates inputs consistently before allowing progression.

Governance Rule Consistency Governance rules for shared channels, site workspaces, and guest access are now evaluated and enforced consistently, including correct application of guest count limits and validation states.

Admin Interface Consistency Multiple improvements to panel layouts, dropdown controls, input validation, tooltips, and status indicators across the admin portal deliver a more predictable and polished administrative experience.

v2.26.12

2025-08-25

✨ Improvements

Enhanced Document Set Field Validation Workspace templates now enforce clear compatibility rules for Document Set internal names and display names, providing immediate, actionable feedback during configuration and ensuring reliable Document Set provisioning across all SharePoint deployments.

v2.26.11

2025-08-08

✨ Improvements

Consistent OneNote Tab Naming Across Template Updates Custom OneNote tab names now persist reliably through bulk template updates and versioning, ensuring that administrator-defined naming choices are maintained consistently across all workspace configurations.

Optimized Nested Group Membership Provisioning Teams Center now correctly recognizes nested group hierarchies during provisioning, eliminating redundant membership requests and maintaining accurate group-based access control at scale.

Reliable Channel Guest Notification Delivery Guest invitation notifications for shared channels now deliver complete, accurate content in all multi-user scenarios, ensuring recipients receive meaningful communication for every invitation event.

Streamlined Guest Approval Workflow The guest invitation approval process now resolves user identities reliably, ensuring workspace owners receive approval notifications for all external collaboration requests without interruption.

v2.26.10

2025-08-05

✨ Improvements

Improved Cross-Tenant User Search Experience Shared channel guest searches now provide clear, informative feedback when querying across tenant boundaries, guiding administrators with appropriate context rather than technical error messages.

Private Channel Member Removal Accuracy Member removal operations in private channels now report completion status accurately, giving administrators reliable confirmation that membership changes have been applied.

Enhanced Internal Guest Search Compatibility Internal guest search now works reliably across all Microsoft Graph API filter configurations, ensuring administrators can efficiently locate and manage internal guests throughout the platform.

v2.26.9

2025-07-11

✨ Improvements

OneNote Tab Integration in Teams Client Custom-named OneNote tabs now load reliably within the Teams client interface, restoring the native in-Teams collaboration experience for all channel configurations.

v2.26.8

2025-06-03

🚀 New Features

Sensitivity Labels Integration with Latest Microsoft Architecture Sensitivity label provisioning now operates in full alignment with Microsoft's current CSOM architecture, enabling organizations to enforce information protection policies and data classification across all Teams workspaces with confidence.

✨ Improvements

Stable Group Expiration Persistence Group lifecycle settings are now correctly preserved when workspace membership changes occur, ensuring that groups with defined expiration policies maintain their intended configuration throughout all routine membership operations.

v2.26.7

2025-05-15

🚀 New Features

Enterprise-Scale Template Visibility Management Workspace templates now support 40+ user and security group visibility configurations, enabling organizations to implement granular and comprehensive access control strategies without architectural constraints.

v2.26.6

2025-05-12

✨ Improvements

Enhanced Join Request Processing Membership synchronization for join requests now handles all workspace lifecycle states reliably, including complex archiving scenarios, delivering consistent membership management across the platform.

v2.26.5

2025-04-28

✨ Improvements

Guest Management Workflow Reliability The guest invitation and editing experience now works consistently across all scenarios, including display name customization, concurrent multi-guest invitations, and group removal during the invitation flow.

Governance Validation and Feedback Governance rule feedback — including maximum member counts and group validation states — is now displayed accurately and at the right time, giving administrators clear guidance throughout workspace configuration.

Private and Nested Channel Expiration Accuracy Expiration dates for workspace members and nested group users are now correctly calculated and synchronized across private channels in all membership scenarios.

Workspace Manageability at Scale Workspaces with larger security group configurations now remain fully manageable, with all administrative controls accessible and responsive.

Interface Consistency UI controls, validation states, and layout elements across member and guest management panels are now consistent and correctly rendered in all workflow states.

v2.26.4

2025-04-08

✨ Improvements

Admin Interface Stability The workspace configuration interface now loads reliably across all governance rule combinations and template metadata configurations, providing a stable experience for administrators during all editing and setup operations.

v2.26.3

2025-04-02

✨ Improvements

Complete Group Visibility in Guest Lists All invited security groups are now correctly displayed in guest list views, ensuring administrators have a complete and accurate view of current guest access configurations.

v2.25.3

2025-04-01

✨ Improvements

OneNote Notebook Access for App-Only Configurations Teams OneNote notebooks are now accessible via Microsoft Graph in app-only permission contexts, ensuring seamless notebook integration for all workspace deployment scenarios.

v2.26.2

2025-03-20

✨ Improvements

Archiving Policy Continuity After Bulk Updates Workspaces now correctly apply template-defined SharePoint archiving settings during bulk updates, ensuring lifecycle governance policies are consistently enforced across all workspace configurations.

Expanded Character Support in Workspace Identifiers Group email addresses and site URLs now support a broader range of special characters, eliminating provisioning friction for organizations with diverse naming conventions.

Reliable Shared Channel Guest Lifecycle Enforcement Shared channel guest memberships are now removed accurately and on schedule in line with configured lifecycle policies, maintaining clean and compliant access boundaries.

Channel Membership Provisioning Completeness Security group users are now provisioned to private and shared channels during workspace creation in all group and channel configurations.

v2.26.1

2025-03-11

✨ Improvements

Channel Filtering Accuracy Channel filters now apply correctly, giving administrators and workspace owners an accurate view of available channels across all workspace types.

Guest and Group Lifecycle Cleanup Expired shared channel guests and expirable security groups are now removed on schedule during lifecycle operations, including workspace soft archiving, maintaining clean and compliant access boundaries.

Archiving Operation Reliability Hard archive operations now complete reliably across all workspace configurations, including those with service-account-managed memberships.

Membership Synchronization Consistency Group member synchronization with Teams is now accurate when users are removed from a workspace, maintaining alignment between Teams Center and the underlying Microsoft 365 state.

Template Manageability After Upgrades Templates remain fully manageable following platform upgrades, with all configuration options accessible and editable as expected.

Governance Feedback During Workspace Creation Governance rule violations for members are now surfaced immediately during workspace creation, giving requestors clear and actionable feedback before submission.

v2.26.0

2025-02-25

This major release delivers one of the most significant platform updates to date, introducing comprehensive security group support, advanced role management, governance enhancements, and a broad set of performance and UI improvements.

🚀 New Features

Comprehensive Security Group Lifecycle Management Security groups can now be provisioned and managed end-to-end within workspaces and channels, including bulk updates, expiration policies, and full visibility of group users in request details and approval workflows.

Advanced Role Management for Owners, Members, and Guests Dedicated management views and editing capabilities are now available for Owner, Member, and Guest roles at both the workspace and channel level, giving administrators precise control over role assignments throughout the workspace lifecycle.

Governance Visibility and API Enhancements Governance rule violations are now surfaced directly as a status message bar within the admin interface for immediate visibility. New API filter parameters enable custom request views, and refresh-token support improves reliability for all backend operations.

Unified Workspace and Channel Navigation Context menus in card and list views have been consolidated for a more consistent navigation experience, workspace titles are now displayed in channel request panels, and guest management controls include improved contextual guidance.

✨ Improvements

Optimized Lifecycle Processing Inactivity and expiration jobs now complete with reduced processing time and lower resource utilization, improving platform performance at enterprise scale.

Workspace Provisioning Validation Title, URL, and mail-nickname validation rules are now enforced consistently during workspace creation, preventing invalid configurations before provisioning begins.

Faster Template Editor and Solution Loading Solution list loading is significantly faster, and the template editor has been updated with the latest framework dependencies for improved responsiveness.

Modern Front-End Framework The platform front-end has been upgraded to the latest SPFx version, improving compatibility, security, and long-term maintainability.

Admin Interface Stability This release also incorporates a wide range of stability improvements across provisioning workflows, archiving interfaces, and API error handling, delivering a more reliable and consistent administrative experience.

v2.25.2

2025-03-17

✨ Improvements

Channel Filtering Accuracy Channel filters now apply correctly across all workspace types, giving administrators an accurate and up-to-date view of available channels.

Approval Workflow Integrity Approval response types are now handled correctly across all request scenarios, ensuring approval flows complete as expected.

Expired Guest Cleanup Expired shared channel guest and member access is removed reliably on schedule, keeping workspace access boundaries clean and compliant.

v2.25.1

2025-02-26

✨ Improvements

Lifecycle Policy Consistency Across Channels Member and guest expiration handling is now consistent across all channels and workspace types, ensuring lifecycle policies are applied reliably regardless of workspace configuration.

Accurate Archive Date Calculation After Migration Archive dates are now calculated correctly following workspace migrations, ensuring lifecycle timelines remain accurate and archiving operations execute on schedule.

v2.25.0

2025-01-31

This release introduces meaningful advances in platform security and external user lifecycle management, alongside a range of stability and performance improvements across workspace and channel operations.

🚀 New Features

Enhanced Platform Security for Workspace Operations Additional authentication safeguards have been introduced for workspace provisioning and management operations, aligning the platform with current security best practices and strengthening governance for all administrative workflows.

Automated Expiration for Shared Channel Members Shared channels now support automated expiration policies for all member types, including both internal and external users. Administrators can define expiration periods per channel, and access is automatically revoked when the expiration window closes, helping organizations enforce time-bound access policies at scale.

✨ Improvements

Guest Provisioning and Private Channel Availability Newly invited guests are now available in private channels in a timely manner following invitation, improving the onboarding experience for external collaborators.

Approval-Based Member Removal Consistency Member removal operations that go through approval workflows now complete consistently, with accurate status outcomes in all approval path scenarios.

Lifecycle Notification Reliability Lifecycle notification emails are delivered reliably and on schedule across all workspace types and lifecycle stages.

Lifecycle Management for Large Document Volumes Workspace archiving and lifecycle operations now complete reliably even in workspaces with large document libraries, preventing timeouts in high-volume environments.

Admin Portal Archive and Delete Operations Administrators can now initiate archiving and deletion operations for any workspace directly from the Admin Portal, with reliable execution across all workspace states.

Teams Groups Migration Completeness Teams groups without a General channel are now supported in the migration workflow, broadening compatibility for organizations migrating diverse Teams configurations.

Admin Portal Wording and Workflow Clarity Template versioning controls and admin portal workflows now use clearer, more consistent language, reducing ambiguity for administrators during template management operations.

Auto-Approval Consistency Auto-approval rejection handling is now stable and consistent, preventing edge-case workflow interruptions in high-volume approval scenarios.